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Rumble Wins Hot Docs Audience Award & $50,000 Rogers Audience Award

Audience votes have been tallied and the 2017 Audience Award winner is Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (D: Catherine Bainbridge; Canada), the story of Native American rock guitarist Link Wray and other Indigenous musicians who shaped popular music.

Rumble also received the Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary, and a $50,000 cash prize, courtesy of Rogers Group of Funds, was given to director Catherine Bainbridge and co-director Alfonso Maiorana. With this prize, Hot Docs has awarded over $300,000 in cash and prizes during the Festival.

Also in the audience poll, the top short was The Forger (D: Samantha Stark, Alexandra Garcia, Pamela Druckerman; USA), and the top mid-length doc was Death in the Terminal (D: Asaf Sudry, Tali Shemesh; Israel), which also won Best Mid-Length Documentary Award at the Hot Docs awards presentation on Friday.